IBC 2009
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 01:00
IBC 2009
Tedial focuses on enterprise connectivity and data efficiency at IBC2009.
With all attention focused on technology to improve the workflows and business processes of media companies, Tedial will use IBC2009 to demonstrate its commitment to enterprise-level content management. Its suite of workflow and asset management products – Tarsys, AST, MPM, Indexer and Ficus – now incorporate compliance with the latest cross-industry standard.
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is an emerging specification of web services, developed by companies such as Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP, to enable the free flow of information around an enterprise content management system. It represents a substantial advance over today’s service oriented architectures as it unifies access to information systems, independent of the internal architecture, through a common access interface.
Tedial, the industry leader in the management of audio-visual assets is actively pursuing the CMIS project because it will simplify the design of integrated systems and reduce integration costs. This development will increase still further the ability of Tedial to create seamless broadcast process management systems which drive media workflows from commercial and business drivers.
At IBC2009 Tedial will also be demonstrating its ability to transform any standard or high definition content into H.264 with AAC audio coding (including 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound), resulting in a format widely known as H.264+DolbyAAC. The benefit of this format is that it is very compact and therefore quick to transfer around a network, but retains sufficient quality to be edited by powerful tools such as Final Cut Pro and subsequently broadcast.
Tedial has developed its own software coding for H.264+DolbyAAC using the Quicktime wrapper, and this has led to the development of associated tools to analyse, index, transcode, edit, restore and verify these media files, as part of a library of functions to be implemented within a Tedial MPM system integration.
Finally, advances in compression efficiency and hierarchical storage management technology, together with improvements in data tape archive access speeds, are now raising new issues in how best to store all the files which a media asset management needs to handle, including storyboards, indexes, images and text documents. With the latest version of the LTO tape drive now capable of transferring 120 megabytes a second, and the life cycle of data tape being directly related to the number of mount and rewind cycles, there is a need to develop new and intelligent ways of archiving and accessing data.
Tedial has developed a new module for its AST archive system that optimises file sizes and access operations to minimise the impact on data tape archives. The module is designed using standard components of the Unix/Linux operating system, so will be compatible with any archive system’s own applications.
These important new developments, and the whole of Tedial’s suite of workflow and productivity tools, can be seen on stand 8.C28 at IBC2009, 11 to 15 September, at the RAI Congress Centre in Amsterdam.
About Tedial:
Tedial (Tecnologias Digitales Audiovisuales) is a high technology company, based in Málaga, Spain, that specialises in asset management and process controlin systems which include audiovisual content, including broadcast, institutional, healthcare and industry. It is a market leader in Spain and Latin America, and is active globally delivering innovative, complete and highly functional media and process management systems.